Verizon MI424WR User Manual

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Wireless Broadband Router User Manual

3. In the bottom part of the screen, select the correct time zone from the “Time

Zone” drop-down list, then click OK at the bottom of the screen.

The Router is now configured.

Connecting Other Computers/Set Top Boxes

The Router can connect to other computers or set top boxes in three ways: via
Ethernet, via wireless connection, or via coaxial cable.

Ethernet
1. Get an Ethernet cable and plug one end into one of the open yellow

Ethernet ports on the back of the Router.

2. Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into an Ethernet port on the computer.

3. Make sure the corresponding Ethernet

LAN

light on the front of the Router

glows steadily green.

4. Repeat these steps for each computer to be connected to the Router

via Ethernet.

Wireless
1. Make sure each computer to be connected wirelessly has built-in wireless or

an attached wireless adapter.

2. Make sure the computer uses the same

ESSID

and

WEP

key as the Router by

launching the computer’s wireless application

3. Enter the

ESSID

and

WEP

key found on the sticker on the bottom of the

Router in the computer’s wireless settings and click Save. Make sure to con-
figure the computer to use

-bit

WEP

encryption.

4. Make sure the changes were implemented by surfing the Internet from

the computer.

5. Repeat these steps for every other computer to be connected to the

Router wirelessly.